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Resources for Teachers

Thanks to AHRC Follow On Funding for a Teacher Scholar Programme, run in collaboration with The National Archives, teaching materials on the history of medieval migration are now freely available for Key Stages 2-5. See our Resources for Teachers page for more details.

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Please take a minute to answer our very short survey on the England’s Immigrants Database here.

Welcome to the England’s Immigrants Database

Welcome to England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a fully-searchable
database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated
to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black
Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.

The information within this database has been drawn from a variety of
published and un-published records – taxation assessments, letters of
denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and
grants – and offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the
origins, destinations, occupations and identities of the people who
chose to make England their home during this turbulent period.
For more information on the sources used, please click on Sources.

The database allows users to search on a wide range of criteria,
and to display the information retrieved in a variety of useful and
innovative ways, including tables, graphs, charts and maps. For
experienced users, the basic data can also be downloaded for
further manipulation in other software applications.
For guidance on using the database, please click here.

The database can be searched immediately by entering a name, place or
term into the ‘Quick Search’ box above, or, for a more streamlined search,
simply click on ‘Advanced Search’
and follow the instructions to select the specific information fields
you wish to explore.